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A new law requires school library books to be rated for sexual and explicit material.

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday heard arguments in a case about sexually explicit materials in school library books.

On June 13, Governor Gregg Abbott signed House Bill 900, known as the Restricting Explicit and Adult-Designated Educational Resources Act. This Bill will go into effect on Nov. 1 and will ban “sexually explicit material” in school libraries.  HB900 defines “sexually explicit material” as any communication, language or material that describes, depicts or portrays sexual...

School district officials are removing books from circulation to determine if they are suitable for school libraries.

A win for BookPeople and First Amendment

A new state law requiring school library book vendors to rate books according to sexual content is unconstitutional and unduly burdensome on booksellers, Waco-based U.S. District Judge Alan Albright said

Here are a some of the 774 bills going into effect on Sept. 1 after being passed by the Texas Legislature.

According to the Texas Book Rating Law, book vendors are mandated to assign ratings to books as per the sexual content present in the same. Find details here.

New laws surrounding school safety, crime, gender, voting and guns in Texas will go into effect on Sept. 1.

A coalition of booksellers and publishers filed a lawsuit in Texas on Tuesday seeking to block a recently passed law that would keep books deemed "sexually explicit" out of schools. The law, which is...